What is great about the Weeknd is that his biggest songs are all about very dark subjects and most people who aren’t fans never even notice like Blinding Lights being about overdose, Can’t Feel My Face being about cocaine, The Hills being about him sleeping around and being an addict, Starboy being a song wondering why radio let his music become so big knowing how dark it is
@@maesonsims6885 its about drunk driving he said it himself he wants his girl back so bad that he's willing to drive under the influence just to go see her in las vegas
Dawn FM is my absolute favorite album. I cannot get over how seamless the transition into the next songs are. I feel like I’m in purgatory hearing this on a loop. I lost track of how many times I’ve played the whole album.
Echoes of silence is the best of the trilogy. I just love the dark mood the production is so immersive. I love mj and I love the influence especially the Dirty Diana cover. And Montreal is gorgeous he sounds fantastic in French.
idc what anyone says, starboy is my favorite. it's the first album that i discovered by myself, without my parents' influence, and made me start to discover my own taste of music. i go back to it regularly to this day
@@NFRPodcast no. That’s the only album (mixtape) that I would genuinely say I love every song on. It’s different than just no skips, that I’m not just willing to listen to all of them, but I love them all. And plus HoB/GTG is my favorite song of all time
@@NFRPodcast I think he can but he won't with this 80s synth wave vibe he been doing for years now. It's gott something darker and more mysterious I think
@@NFRPodcast I feel like from track 1-14 you are put in an atmosphere where sometimes i’ll be listening to it and it will feel like i’m in Las Vegas with Abel while listening to the project. The red suit and whole aesthetic of the After Hours era just makes the music better in my opinion from the short movie to the music videos and even him just posting him in the red suit on instagram added to the whole aesthetic / era for me. I just feel like from the second this era began all the way to the release of the album and even after it’s release I think Abel couldn’t have rolled out the album in a better way it set us up perfectly for this project and it’s a unique project that is an experience and feels like much more then music. Probably my favorite album in the past decade
@@NFRPodcast I am curious since you mentioned heaven or Las Vegas does that mean you didn’t listen to the bonus tracks like till dawn, Valerie, and twenty eight, because all three of those songs are really good
I personally have a soft spot for Starboy cause that was a time when I became a fan of his when he dropped BBTM and getting hyped for Starboy. I also love and grew up with that poppy dance club type of music so it fit right into my alley. Also, Daft Punk was the first ever duo/group that I really listened to back when I was a child, so to have Daft Punk on a Weeknd album with them producing some of the tracks and being the background vocals really made me love the album.
RANKING timestamps: 9. Starboy - 1:18 8. Beauty Behind The Madness - 3:29 7. My Dear Melancholy, - 6:49 6. Kiss Land - 9:42 5. Echoes Of Silence - 13:17 4. Thursday - 17:01 3. Dawn FM - 21:35 2. After Hours - 25:35 1. House Of Balloons - 29:48
I can’t lie I feel Starboy should’ve been higher, bc with that album he proved that he was here to stay. He was at the point where all artists either test new sounds or stay safe and repeat the same sounds continuously. But with starboy he showed he’s a house hold name and him taking that risk is part of the reason we enjoy him. This is a small part that makes him The Weeknd.
You are wrong. What makes you think "all artists" were in the position of trying something new or "stay" repeating themselves? That's a HUGE generalization. Starboy contains a couple of songs of the best that the last decade gave but if you gonna talk about him showing to the world he was meant to stay, that sounds like Kissland all the way. That was his mainstream attempt
@@bryan1956 his mainstream attempt was definitely bbtm. That album was created for the radio. Kissland is still not one of the most highly rated albums from Weeknd by the media although it's definitely one of my favourites
Just cause he proved he was here to stay doesnt mean the quality was great, whilst yes I disagree that star boy is worse than my dear melancholy I can’t deny that it is bottom 3, which hurts because I use to love this album and defend it but it’s low key grew off me.
Unpopular opinion: I really think that MDM is his best project, because of the way that it was built and the real feelings that Abel placed there, he wasn't afraid of making a whole EP about his own relationships, and all the feelings and chills that MDM makes me feel... It is amazing.
Kiss Land is most definitely his best album. Whether sonically, lyrically, thematically, visually, the quality of this album is undefeated. There’s so many layers to it and the Japanese influence and aesthetic is amazing. And he took his original sound a step further production-wise. Not a mainstream project but definitely his best. House of Balloons is a close second for me.
@@deeroybeatz Great. I feel like BBTM is high level. The production, the atmosphere, lyrics and confidence boasted throughout the project, the strong beginnings and ends. This project tends to be underrated by fans but i think it captured weekend best cohesive work aside of Dawn Fm and House of Ballons
@@bolyd.3856 absolutely i agree with you. It’s a great album. I actually love BBTM, its just that this was the beginning of “pop” abel which is the reason I rank it at the bottom. I do think there is still elements of his original sound in BBTM, but i am not a big fan of the commercial route he went with his music, but I do understand why he did it. I can’t help but feel that he is limiting himself considering the fact that his first 4 projects were so innovative, and fresh to us, and he has for the most part left that sound behind. The only reason I rank MDM and After Hours ahead of BBTM is because his original sound seems a little more prominent in those projects. But they’re all great.
Just saw The Weeknd in DC this past weekend and take my breath / sacrifice sounded so good live. I believe Dawn FM was meant to be heard at a concert but nothing touches those first three mixtapes.
This is what made me just fall in love with the Weeknd 1. adaptation 2. House of balloons/ glasshouse girls 3. Privilege 4. As you are 4. Nothing without you 5. Ordinary Life 6. I was never there 7. Hurt You 8. Is there someone else followed with Starry eyes 9. AfterHours 10. Nomads featuring Ricky Hill The Weeknd's verse is so sexy 😍
Honestly, this ranking changes for me all of the time because I love all of his music, but here are mine: 1. Kissland (10/10) Fav Song: Tears in the Rain 2. Dawn FM (10/10) Fav Song: How do I Make You Love Me 3. House of Balloons (10/10) Fav Song: the Party and the After Party 4. After Hours (9.5/10) Fav Song: After Hours 5. Thursday (9.5/10) Fav Song: Lonely Star 6. Starboy (9/10) Fav Song: False Alarm 7. Echoes of Silence (9/10) Fav Song: XO/The Host 8. My Dear melancholy (8/10) Fav Song: Wasted Times 9. Beauty behind the Madness (7/10) Fav Song: In the Night 10 .The Noise EP (4/10) Fav Song: Super Hero
@@barcaforever5074 It was like that for me last month! Again, I love all of his music. After Hours defined my 12th grade, and now Dawn FM is part of my first year in university
Even though Trilogy is more my taste musically, I’ve been really enjoying his last two albums because they are easier to connect to emotionally, which I really like in music. As good as Trilogy and Kiss Land are, they are not easy to relate to, because he can come off as very unlikable. But the stories on Dawn FM (and After Hours to an extent) are much easier to empathize with.
Kissland will always have my ear for a listen at least every day I can put that album on repeat and it never disappoints. Also hearing Kissland in person at his kissland tour in 2013 was amazing
echoes of silence is his best in my opinion and one of the best projects of all time. after hours is a close second. nice video, agree on almost everything you guys pointed out
1. House Of Balloons 10/10 Fav song: The Morning 2. After Hours 9.5/10 Fav song: After Hours 3. BBTM 9/10 Fav song: The Hills/Angel 4. Starboy 9/10 (maybe 8.5) Fav song: Reminder/Secrets 5. Kiss Land 8/10 Fav song: Wanderlust/Pretty 6. Echoes of Silence 8/10 Fav song: Montreal 7. Melancholy, 8/10 (wish IT was longer) Fav song: Wasted Times/Privelage 8. Dawn FM 8/10 Fav song: Gasoline 9. Thursday Fav song: The Birds pt1
@@GiddyGoat I love it but Thursday and Life Of The Party are my least fav songs by Abel and both of them are on Thursday, the theme of this mixtape is insane and the birds pt1 is my 3rd fav Weeknd song, pt2, the zone and lonely star are also insane
1.) After Hours Favorite Track - After Hours 2.) House of Balloons Favorite Track - The Knowing 3.) Dawn FM Favorite Track - Gasoline 4.) Echoes of Silence Favorite Track - Montreal 5.) Kiss Land Favorite Track - Belong To The World 6.) Starboy Favorite Track - Reminder 7.) Beauty Behind the Madness Favorite Track - Tell Your Friends 8.) Thursday Favorite Track - The Birds, Pt. 2 9.) My Dear Melancholy, Favorite Track - Privilege After Hours easily takes the crown for me. The rollout was so full of hype and was so exciting. The aesthetic for the era is so kickass. The sinister Las Vegas grunge with that iconic ass red suit, his hairstyle, those glasses he wore. I hate using that word, iconic, but that’s exactly what the look was. You know instantly who it is and what is being represented when you see that flashy red suit. I love it even though Abel was tired of wearing it by the end of the era lol. The album tells a story from start to finish. Starts with him ending up Alone Again, then goes in his usual nightly escapades of drugs and sex, he ends up overdosing, and the album ends with him bleeding out, or dying, which is where Dawn FM picks up, with him in purgatory transitioning into the after life. After Hours is such a versatile record. You have mainstream pop tunes like Blinding Lights and Save Your Tears, but you also get some “rap” or “trap” sounding songs like Snowchild, Heartless, and Escape From LA. He experimented with drum and bass on Hardest To Love. Scared to Live is the album’s breakup/love song ballad, and then you have tracks like After Hours, Faith, Repeat After Me, Alone Again, and Until I Bleed out that really dig into the self loathing and depression that Abel was feeling. The entire album is an amalgamation of everything Abel has created up to that point. It is, dare I say it, a perfect album, and the only one to top House of Balloons for me. House of Balloons was my favorite project from him until After Hours. HoB is a very hard project to be better than but AH did that for me. I miss that era deeply. Dawn FM is fantastic but After Hours was on another level. It’s crazy that critics took to Dawn FM more than they did AH.
Just FYI, the reason none of the songs on Echoes of Silence had more than 200,000 streams on Spotify as you said was because you were streaming the original mixtape, not Trilogy, If you look at the Trilogy streaming numbers for EoS, every song is over 30 million, with D.D. almost at 100 million
I love how deep you guys get into the conversations and how you describe not only how you like the songs but how they make you feel and what they mean on a deeper level. Also Abel’s goated ❤
For me it’s too hard to rank them without doing tiers. Some of them are so close together imo. S: HOB, EOS, Kissland, After hours A: Thursday, BBTM, MDM B: Starboy, Dawn Fm ALL OF THESE ALBUMS ARE AMAZING. B TIER IS STILL REALLY GOOD FOR ME. I don’t want people thinking I dislike any of these.
The Weeknd is one of those artists where he switches up his sound every album and never seems to miss. I haven't listened to every project in his discography but I've listened to all of his studio albums and they all hit
My ranking 1. After Hours 2. Beauty behind the madness 3. House of Balloons 4. My dear melancholy 5. Starboy 6. Dawn FM 7. Kissland 8. Echoes of silence 9. Thursday BBTM is weeknds most underrated project and he wouldn’t have the star power he has today without it. Some of his most iconic hits ever & blended perfectly between his old & new style
I agree wit you on BBTM being the album that made him blow up the way he did but I just think as far meaning, storytelling and the sound its not his best but I still Iove the album nonetheless
My favorite from The Weeknd is actually My Dear Melancholy. I adore all of his projects. But when I listened to My Dear Melancholy in 2018, it made me into a super fan of The Weeknd. It’s his most cohesive album as there’s 7 songs and you get to know everything about The Weeknd sonically and lyrically. Plus, back in 2018, I got cheated on by my ex-girlfriend and this album helped me deal with the heartbreak as I relate to how he was feeling about his heartbreak. This album has his best songs like Try Me, Call Out My Name, Hurt You, I Was Never There, and Privilege. I still replay every song on this album. It’s my personal favorite from The Weeknd and it’s iconic in my heart.
1. House of Ballons 2. Dawn FM 3. After Hours 4. Thursday 5. Echos of silence 6. Starboy 7. Beauty behind the madness 8. My dear melononlchy 9. Kiss land
His foresight at 21 is insane. When the trilogy mixtapes were fresh i didn't grasp the concepts right away but when I did it made the music 20x better. A true artist
For someone not too much into that sexual or playboy music.. My list 1 : Dawn FM ( Fav: Less Than Zero ) 2 : Starboy ( Fav: Die for You ) 3 : Mdm ( Fav: Call out my name ) 4 : After Hours ( Fav: In Your Eyes ) 5 : BBTM ( Fav: Earned it ) 6 : Kissland ( Fav: Tears in the Rain ) 7 : Trilogy ( Fav: House of balloons/GTG )
1. House of Balloons 2. Dawn FM 3. After Hours 4. Thursday 5. Kiss Land 6. Beauty Behind the Madness 7. Echoes of Silence 8. My Dear Melancholy 9. Starboy
1. After Hours (Most well rounded Weeknd project by far) 2. House of Balloons (Best production out of all 3 mixtapes) 3. Echoes of Silence (Best singing out of all 3 mixtapes) 4. Beauty Behind the Madness (Best hits and a great era in music) 5. Kissland (Amazing production, some tracks are too stretched out imo) 6. My Dear Melancholy (Too short but some of his best singing no doubt) 7. Dawn FM (Not his best but amazing track list, feels like an AFTER HOURS B-Sides) 8. Thursday ( Having it this low doesn't feel right, I might be sleeping on it) 9. Starboy (Too much filler, Reminder go hard tho)
I understand why people don't like starboy as much but it has some of his biggest and best hits to date with reminder, secrets, I feel it coming, starboy, party monster (super underrated), and die for you, cmon it was good to great album
My ranking, with my favourite two songs from each project... 1. After Hours (After Hours, In Your Eyes) 2. Kiss Land (Kiss Land, The Town) 3. House of Balloons (HoB/GTG, Wicked Games) 4. Dawn FM (Out of Time, Less Than Zero) 5. Thursday (The Zone, Rolling Stone) 6. Echoes of Silence (Initiation, D.D) 7. My Dear Melancholy (Wasted Times, Hurt You) 8. Starboy (Starboy, Sidewalks) 9. Beauty Behind The Madness (The Hills, Prisoner)
@@Millerofmac-rip Doesn't mean I dislike it. Still plenty of songs I play regularly from that album, classics. I love The Weeknd, it's just tough competition against his other albums which are all so good
Really appreciated hearing y’all reflections. The Weeknd is my favorite artist, I’ve been a fan since tracks from HoB in 2010/2011 were dropping without his face on it. Its been so special watching him grow and the story he tells in his music continue. I feel like he has one of the most cohesive discrographys. As someone who struggles with addiction and ptsd, a lot of things he tells in the story have always resonated with me. Like feeling stuck in the depression and needing drugs and other means to drown it out. Now that I’ve been in recovery for almost 3 years, songs like “until I bleed it out” and “gasoline” really resonate. Trying to transition into someone different, but feeling held back by my destructive past self still. I def feel such a connection to his discography because I’ve felt like I’ve grown along side of it on so many levels. It’s a bonus that the sound is insane 😍
Aww man Until I Bleed Out is so underrated but touchy. Whenever it comes into my playlist I have to skip it because it's a song that puts me to cry really easily
Listened to his music for the first time and bbtm is my favorite album of the weeknd it has everything that i love from the weeknd from the dark sound to singing to the production a 10/10 album and house of balloons as the seco
Tbh I’ve never been the biggest Weeknd fan but I stumbled upon House of Balloons one night and it just hit so hard. I tend to put that album on before I go to sleep most nights. It just puts me at peace. From there though I’ve gave his other two mixtapes a listen and dove into his albums. Nothing really hit the same for me except Beauty Behind The Madness which I love too. I have that and House Of Balloons on vinyl and after watching you guys give your takes on his discography I’m motivated to dive into his discography again, and with a new perspective and understanding of his concepts.
My three favourites gotta be Kiss Land, Star Boy, and Dawn FM is up there too. I definitely disagree with Starboy having too much filler, from top to bottom that album was incredible and it's one that I still go back to a lot.
My ranking: 10. Starboy 9. Echoes of Silence 8. My Dear Melancholy 7. The Noise EP (Unreleased) 6. Beauty behind the Madness 5. Thursday 4. After hours 3. Kiss Land 2. Dawn FM 1. House of balloons
My Ranking: 1. House of Ballons 2. Kissland 3. Beauty Behind the Madness 4. Echoes of Silence 5. Thursday 6. My Dear Melancholy 7. After Hours 8. Starboy 9. Dawn FM
@@poison1356 It definitely is controversial but its cause i'm not as big of some of the more poppy songs on there. I love songs like alone again, too late, escape from la, save your tears, repeat after me, after hours, and until i bleed, but I don't really like snowchild, heartless and blinding lights. Overall I love after hours and ranking it 7 doesn't really give justice to how great it is but I just prefer the darker sound from his previous albums
In the birds PT. 2, she shoots herself, and it portrays the Weeknd as a bird, as a crow, which are prophecised to wait for their prey and hunt them until they're Gone, which is the next track on the album 19:59
House of Balloons, Kiss Land and Echoes of Silence are my top 3. After Hours and Dawn FM are fantastic though and probably right on the cusp of being top 3 for me.
I'm a basic Weeknd fan so don't make fun of me. My favorite albums are After Hours (mainly because of Save Your Tears and Blinding Lights) and Kiss Land. Kiss Land just slaps. Edit: I also like BBTM and Starboy
1. DawnFM 2. After Hours 3. Kiss Land 4. House of Balloons 5. Thursday 6. Echoes of Silence 7. Starboy 8. My Dear Melancholy 9. Beauty behind the madness
My rating (not like anyone cares worst to best in my opinion) Dawn FM, Echoes Of Silence, Thursday, House Of Balloons, Trilogy (I know it’s the past 3 with extra that is why I put it here), Starboy, My Dear Melancholy, After Hours, and finally my favorite Beauty Behind The Madness
For my top Weekend songs, here they are at the moment: 1. The Party and After Party 2. Tears in the Rain 3. The Knowing 4. Adaptation/Love in the Sky 5. After Hours 6. How do I Make You Love Me 7. False Alarm 8. Kissland 9. Gasoline 10. Faith
9. Kiss land 8. Beauty behind the madness 7. My dear melancholy 6. Starboy 5. Dawn FM 4. Thursday 3. After hours 2. Echoes of silence 1. House of balloons
1. After Hours (from beginning to end, it’s a nonstop blockbuster. Excellent transitions and great subject matter. Inspired me as a musician) 2. House of Balloons (dark and edgy. The raw sound with the instrumentals and vocals adds to it rather than devalue it) 3. My Dear Melancholy (perfect flow and feel. Doesn’t overstay it’s welcome and is easy to play through without any skips) 4. Kiss Land (best album in terms of story telling and transitions. Epic narrative and underlying tones) 5. Dawn FM (diverse and narratively great. Beautiful sequel to AH) 6. Thursday (beautiful vocals with cool theme behind the narrative) 7. Starboy (great pop songs and R&B tracks. A great album that could do without a few tracks) 8. Echoes of Silence (best vocals of the entire Trilogy) 9. Beauty Behind The Madness (mainstream heavy but equally solid)
he said that with starboy that's exactly what he was going for, a bunch of sonically similar songs with a certain concept. not like his other bodies of work. he just wanted to have fun with it which is why I still respect it. but all in all I think that dawn fm is his best album. i can say that with confidence after a year
1.Echoes of Silonence 2. House of ballons 3. After Hours 4. Beauty behind the madness 5.Thrusday 6. Dawn Fm 7. StarBoy 8. Kiss land 9. My Dear Melonchly
I know a lot of people call starboy his most safe album. But it has always been my favorite from him without a doubt. And I love every one of his albums. It’s what really got me into him and I like every song on the album.
Yeah man maybe you got your favorite album Backwards If you would have said after hours I can understand but that's actually criminal what you said you need to look deep into trilogy or kiss land!
My ranking 1. After hours 2. Kiss land 3. House of balloons 4. My dear melancholy 5. Echoes of silence 6. Thursday 7. Beauty behind the madness 8. Dawn FM 9. Starboy
my list: 1. After Hours (all time fav album) 2. HOB 3. EOS 4. Kiss Land 5. Dawn fm 6. Thursday 7. MDM 8. BBTM 9. Starboy Super hard to rank the top 5 and it’s very close between Dawn fm and Thursday but all in all I love his whole discography. i don’t think that there is such a consistent discography as abel’s but that’s just pure bias since his my all time fav artist
My top 5 (because I can't settle for a top 3) 1. BBTM (how I discovered him) 2. Kiss Land (I just love the aesthetic it's so pretty and cool) 3. After Hours (I really loved this era) 4. My Dear Melancholy (This one has an eeeeeeerie vibe to it I can't explain it but I listen to it when I wanna feel angsty) 5. Dawn FM (just the whole radio station vibes and how the first half of the album is like a concert-like shit that I'm excited to see live!!) Special mentions: House of Balloons Starboy (not all the songs, maybe only Sidewalks, Starboy, Die for You and Reminder)
First I just wanna say that every weeknd album is a minimum A- but here’s my ranking: 1) AH 2) BBTM 3) HOB 4) Starboy 5) Dawn FM 6) MDMM 7) Thursday 8) EOS 9) Kiss Land
great video I loved how in-depth you go into your opinions on each project. could you guys add timestamp chapters on the video for each album? I just wanna be able to go back and easily find the commentary for each one to revisit
When I was first introduced to the Weeknd, it was the Trilogy. A great body of work and something I could vibe with Then when BBTM and Starboy, that idea I had of him went away. Yes he tried to evolve his scope and whatnot, but the pop side of the Weeknd I'm not a big fan of. So when After Hours/Dawn FM dropped, I was so happy to get that side of the Weeknd again. There is some narrative being written/sung The first half of his career started off promising, he had some bumps in the middle, but now he's back to his roots!
What does Lu mean when he said that none of the songs from echoes of silence have over 200 K plays. Atleast on my spotify all of the songs are atleast close to 30 million plays.
@@NFRPodcast that’s so tough idk man, I do have a top 10 songs list I’ll put that instead 😭 This is before hearing Dawn FM btw 👏🏼❤️🔥 After Hours HOB/GTG Escape From LA Faith Professional The Town StarGirl Interlude Privilege The Knowing The Hills
My List 1. My Dear Melancholy 2. House of Balloons 3. After Hours 4. Kissland 5. Beauty Behind The Madness 6. Dawn FM 7. Echoes Of Silence 8. Starboy 9. Thursday Very difficult ranking, Thursday is such an amazing record and I don't see any of them as being any less than amazing. If the only music he had out was thursday he would still be my favorite artist. Also my rankings change weekly but My Dear Melancholy will always be the most perfect project of all time for me
That why I love the weekend's discography. I think you should be going to jail for putting B.B.T.M at place 8. But everyone ranks the projects way different
I was waiting so long for this video as a long time fan of The Weeknd’s music. I’ve got my opinions and disagreements for everything 6 and up. Kiss Land, I think, is easily his most misunderstood project and I’m not sure why. God, what I would do to discuss those top 6 projects. There’s a lot in the understanding of his projects that gets missed or extremely overlooked
Beauty behind the madness is criminally underrated
So much facts I love shameless so much
Best project imo. It’s a mix of everything & literally no bad parts and the run from Often- In the night especially is heaven sent
What makes it one of his best albums for you Nick?
@@NFRPodcast the highs are extremely high.
The hills, Angel, in the night, acquainted and Often are some of his best ever songs
@@michaellambo Agreed it's definitely his best project, either that or After Hours.
I think Dawn FM is actually really underrated - think it will age to be one of his best bodies of work
And unlike everyone on Twitter, I loved it on first listen
Agreed !!
It's decent but it still isn't his best work. Abel's done better
@@EasternE6762 second
How is it underrated if everyone agrees so far that it’s good and there’s only been good critical acclaim
What is great about the Weeknd is that his biggest songs are all about very dark subjects and most people who aren’t fans never even notice like Blinding Lights being about overdose, Can’t Feel My Face being about cocaine, The Hills being about him sleeping around and being an addict, Starboy being a song wondering why radio let his music become so big knowing how dark it is
This is a great point Barry! The Weeknd’s messages always have great parallels that people tend to overlook🔥
blinding lights is about drunk driving I thought?
@@rhamid142 go on his album after hours and listen to the song before Blinding Lights, it leads into it
@@rhamid142 blinding lights his about him living it up in las vegas,all the lights of the night life are blinding him
@@maesonsims6885 its about drunk driving he said it himself he wants his girl back so bad that he's willing to drive under the influence just to go see her in las vegas
Dawn FM is my absolute favorite album. I cannot get over how seamless the transition into the next songs are. I feel like I’m in purgatory hearing this on a loop. I lost track of how many times I’ve played the whole album.
Facts.
Echoes of Silence is one of the most avant-garde R&B albums ever
it’s like if Michael Jackson was evil & drowning in bitchez
... and money.
@@hezron1997 … and drugs.
Echoes of silence is the best of the trilogy. I just love the dark mood the production is so immersive. I love mj and I love the influence especially the Dirty Diana cover. And Montreal is gorgeous he sounds fantastic in French.
@@raghudurina2354The fact that Thursday and house of balloons beats it on the ranking is baffeling
Damn, the Weeknd really has no bad albums
No lies detected!
what about The Noise EP 🤣🤣🤣
@@tamunotamuno3564 don’t know what that is
@@tamunotamuno3564 it is not official relase
@@blank1387 yh
idc what anyone says, starboy is my favorite. it's the first album that i discovered by myself, without my parents' influence, and made me start to discover my own taste of music. i go back to it regularly to this day
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@@Chikalonja bark?
Yeah starboy gets too much hate
Ty bro, after hours and starboy are my favorite albums from him
House Of Balloons will always be first for me. Loft Music, Wicked Games, The Knowing is crazy
The Morning is one of my fav songs oat
The Party and the After Party
All of those songs are incredible… do you think he could ever top HOB?
@@NFRPodcast no. That’s the only album (mixtape) that I would genuinely say I love every song on. It’s different than just no skips, that I’m not just willing to listen to all of them, but I love them all. And plus HoB/GTG is my favorite song of all time
@@NFRPodcast I think he can but he won't with this 80s synth wave vibe he been doing for years now. It's gott something darker and more mysterious I think
This is a very respectable list I have After Hours at 1 though it’s easily one of my favorite albums of all time
What’s good Revenge🙏 what makes After Hours his best?
@@NFRPodcast I feel like from track 1-14 you are put in an atmosphere where sometimes i’ll be listening to it and it will feel like i’m in Las Vegas with Abel while listening to the project. The red suit and whole aesthetic of the After Hours era just makes the music better in my opinion from the short movie to the music videos and even him just posting him in the red suit on instagram added to the whole aesthetic / era for me. I just feel like from the second this era began all the way to the release of the album and even after it’s release I think Abel couldn’t have rolled out the album in a better way it set us up perfectly for this project and it’s a unique project that is an experience and feels like much more then music. Probably my favorite album in the past decade
@@RevengeTWOD agreed. i got house of balloons over it slightly, but after hours is a classic.
@@NFRPodcast I am curious since you mentioned heaven or Las Vegas does that mean you didn’t listen to the bonus tracks like till dawn, Valerie, and twenty eight, because all three of those songs are really good
Easily #1
I personally have a soft spot for Starboy cause that was a time when I became a fan of his when he dropped BBTM and getting hyped for Starboy. I also love and grew up with that poppy dance club type of music so it fit right into my alley. Also, Daft Punk was the first ever duo/group that I really listened to back when I was a child, so to have Daft Punk on a Weeknd album with them producing some of the tracks and being the background vocals really made me love the album.
I feel it coming is one of my favorite songs of his, elevates it above a few albums solely off that
The Daft Punk songs were definitely the album’s highlight for me🔥
@@calidevo Starboy, False Alarm, and Ordinary Life are some of my favorite songs by him, but I still think it’s his worst album overall.
Starboy looks great on vinyl. I think it has some of his catchiest songs. They perform better live than KissLand or Trilogy.
I’m personal
RANKING timestamps:
9. Starboy - 1:18
8. Beauty Behind The Madness - 3:29
7. My Dear Melancholy, - 6:49
6. Kiss Land - 9:42
5. Echoes Of Silence - 13:17
4. Thursday - 17:01
3. Dawn FM - 21:35
2. After Hours - 25:35
1. House Of Balloons - 29:48
It’s alr there monkey
I can’t lie I feel Starboy should’ve been higher, bc with that album he proved that he was here to stay. He was at the point where all artists either test new sounds or stay safe and repeat the same sounds continuously. But with starboy he showed he’s a house hold name and him taking that risk is part of the reason we enjoy him. This is a small part that makes him The Weeknd.
What’s up Mason! Starboy was definitely a huge achievement but which albums would you put it over?👀
You are wrong. What makes you think "all artists" were in the position of trying something new or "stay" repeating themselves? That's a HUGE generalization. Starboy contains a couple of songs of the best that the last decade gave but if you gonna talk about him showing to the world he was meant to stay, that sounds like Kissland all the way. That was his mainstream attempt
@@bryan1956 his mainstream attempt was definitely bbtm.
That album was created for the radio. Kissland is still not one of the most highly rated albums from Weeknd by the media although it's definitely one of my favourites
Starboy was super catchy. Every song was catchy, and at least 10 of these songs are some of his best songs to perform.
Just cause he proved he was here to stay doesnt mean the quality was great, whilst yes I disagree that star boy is worse than my dear melancholy I can’t deny that it is bottom 3, which hurts because I use to love this album and defend it but it’s low key grew off me.
Unpopular opinion:
I really think that MDM is his best project, because of the way that it was built and the real feelings that Abel placed there, he wasn't afraid of making a whole EP about his own relationships, and all the feelings and chills that MDM makes me feel... It is amazing.
THANK U, the best comment so far 🥹
nobody talks enough about this masterpiece, is really underrated
Quality over quantity
After Hours is my favorite album in his discography, and I think it’s great that he was able to pull that off with no features.
Kiss Land is most definitely his best album. Whether sonically, lyrically, thematically, visually, the quality of this album is undefeated. There’s so many layers to it and the Japanese influence and aesthetic is amazing. And he took his original sound a step further production-wise. Not a mainstream project but definitely his best. House of Balloons is a close second for me.
1. Kiss Land
2. House of Balloons
3. After Hours
4. Echoes of Silence
5. My Dear Melancholy
6. Thursday
7. BBTM
8. Dawn Fm
9. Starboy
@@deeroybeatz Great. I feel like BBTM is high level. The production, the atmosphere, lyrics and confidence boasted throughout the project, the strong beginnings and ends. This project tends to be underrated by fans but i think it captured weekend best cohesive work aside of Dawn Fm and House of Ballons
@@bolyd.3856 absolutely i agree with you. It’s a great album. I actually love BBTM, its just that this was the beginning of “pop” abel which is the reason I rank it at the bottom. I do think there is still elements of his original sound in BBTM, but i am not a big fan of the commercial route he went with his music, but I do understand why he did it. I can’t help but feel that he is limiting himself considering the fact that his first 4 projects were so innovative, and fresh to us, and he has for the most part left that sound behind. The only reason I rank MDM and After Hours ahead of BBTM is because his original sound seems a little more prominent in those projects. But they’re all great.
@@deeroybeatz Dawn fm at 8 is wild
@@TTime1776 im a og weeknd fan. I love his original sound. It was innovative and unique. I aint feeling all this 80s pop shit. Not for me
12:15 I too would love to see a top ten Weeknd song list! Keep killing it guys
Thank you PandaJab! Definitely in our plans
Just saw The Weeknd in DC this past weekend and take my breath / sacrifice sounded so good live. I believe Dawn FM was meant to be heard at a concert but nothing touches those first three mixtapes.
This is what made me just fall in love with the Weeknd
1. adaptation
2. House of balloons/ glasshouse girls
3. Privilege
4. As you are
4. Nothing without you
5. Ordinary Life
6. I was never there
7. Hurt You
8. Is there someone else followed with Starry eyes
9. AfterHours
10. Nomads featuring Ricky Hill
The Weeknd's verse is so sexy 😍
ordinary life is god XO
Finally someone who knows about Nomads :))
Dawn FM BY FAR my favorite album of his. Never gotten into a full album by him until that. Star boy 2nd best.
Dawn FM was a moment we won’t forget! What makes Starboy rank high for you?👀
After Hours and Dawn FM are my two favourite albums right now, I’m so addicted to his music as a whole, but those two just stand out at incredible.
Honestly, this ranking changes for me all of the time because I love all of his music, but here are mine:
1. Kissland (10/10)
Fav Song: Tears in the Rain
2. Dawn FM (10/10)
Fav Song: How do I Make You Love Me
3. House of Balloons (10/10)
Fav Song: the Party and the After Party
4. After Hours (9.5/10)
Fav Song: After Hours
5. Thursday (9.5/10)
Fav Song: Lonely Star
6. Starboy (9/10)
Fav Song: False Alarm
7. Echoes of Silence (9/10)
Fav Song: XO/The Host
8. My Dear melancholy (8/10)
Fav Song: Wasted Times
9. Beauty behind the Madness (7/10)
Fav Song: In the Night
10 .The Noise EP (4/10)
Fav Song: Super Hero
I'd switch after hours and dawn FM IMO
@@barcaforever5074 It was like that for me last month! Again, I love all of his music. After Hours defined my 12th grade, and now Dawn FM is part of my first year in university
u mentioned The Noise EP 🤣🤣🤣
@@tamunotamuno3564 yup xX Don't know how I found it, but it's something alright xD I didn't bother with Kin Kane though
The noise doesn't count its not theweeknd and it wasn't realesed.
Even though Trilogy is more my taste musically, I’ve been really enjoying his last two albums because they are easier to connect to emotionally, which I really like in music. As good as Trilogy and Kiss Land are, they are not easy to relate to, because he can come off as very unlikable. But the stories on Dawn FM (and After Hours to an extent) are much easier to empathize with.
In Kissland he says "it's not something you can relate to even if you tried"
@@teddysaliwa5770 And also when he says “this ain’t nothing to relate to”
Kissland will always have my ear for a listen at least every day I can put that album on repeat and it never disappoints. Also hearing Kissland in person at his kissland tour in 2013 was amazing
echoes of silence is his best in my opinion and one of the best projects of all time. after hours is a close second. nice video, agree on almost everything you guys pointed out
Honestly solid list, close to mine
My ranking:
9 Starboy
8 BBTM
7 MDM
6 Dawn FM
5 Kissland
4 Thursday
3 Echoes of Silence
2 HOB
1 After Hours
My list:
1) After Hours
2) HOB
3) Kiss Land
4) Dawn FM
5) Echoes of Silence
6) My Dear Melancholy
7) Thursday
8) BBTM
9) Starboy
W
Sorry man but after hours is unbelievably overrated
1. House Of Balloons 10/10
Fav song: The Morning
2. After Hours 9.5/10
Fav song: After Hours
3. BBTM 9/10
Fav song: The Hills/Angel
4. Starboy 9/10 (maybe 8.5)
Fav song: Reminder/Secrets
5. Kiss Land 8/10
Fav song: Wanderlust/Pretty
6. Echoes of Silence 8/10
Fav song: Montreal
7. Melancholy, 8/10 (wish IT was longer)
Fav song: Wasted Times/Privelage
8. Dawn FM 8/10
Fav song: Gasoline
9. Thursday
Fav song: The Birds pt1
Funny enough, Thursday is my favourite the weeknd album😂
Reminder so slept on
@@GiddyGoat I love it but Thursday and Life Of The Party are my least fav songs by Abel and both of them are on Thursday, the theme of this mixtape is insane and the birds pt1 is my 3rd fav Weeknd song, pt2, the zone and lonely star are also insane
@@connorprag375 yeah :D
After Hours and Dawn FM are my favorites. My Dear Melancholy is also dope
Absolutely! MDM is slept on🔥
@@NFRPodcast facts
1.) After Hours
Favorite Track - After Hours
2.) House of Balloons
Favorite Track - The Knowing
3.) Dawn FM
Favorite Track - Gasoline
4.) Echoes of Silence
Favorite Track - Montreal
5.) Kiss Land
Favorite Track - Belong To The World
6.) Starboy
Favorite Track - Reminder
7.) Beauty Behind the Madness
Favorite Track - Tell Your Friends
8.) Thursday
Favorite Track - The Birds, Pt. 2
9.) My Dear Melancholy,
Favorite Track - Privilege
After Hours easily takes the crown for me. The rollout was so full of hype and was so exciting. The aesthetic for the era is so kickass. The sinister Las Vegas grunge with that iconic ass red suit, his hairstyle, those glasses he wore. I hate using that word, iconic, but that’s exactly what the look was. You know instantly who it is and what is being represented when you see that flashy red suit. I love it even though Abel was tired of wearing it by the end of the era lol. The album tells a story from start to finish. Starts with him ending up Alone Again, then goes in his usual nightly escapades of drugs and sex, he ends up overdosing, and the album ends with him bleeding out, or dying, which is where Dawn FM picks up, with him in purgatory transitioning into the after life.
After Hours is such a versatile record. You have mainstream pop tunes like Blinding Lights and Save Your Tears, but you also get some “rap” or “trap” sounding songs like Snowchild, Heartless, and Escape From LA. He experimented with drum and bass on Hardest To Love. Scared to Live is the album’s breakup/love song ballad, and then you have tracks like After Hours, Faith, Repeat After Me, Alone Again, and Until I Bleed out that really dig into the self loathing and depression that Abel was feeling. The entire album is an amalgamation of everything Abel has created up to that point. It is, dare I say it, a perfect album, and the only one to top House of Balloons for me. House of Balloons was my favorite project from him until After Hours. HoB is a very hard project to be better than but AH did that for me. I miss that era deeply. Dawn FM is fantastic but After Hours was on another level. It’s crazy that critics took to Dawn FM more than they did AH.
Bro i love, After hours so much, it takes no.1 for me too
Just FYI, the reason none of the songs on Echoes of Silence had more than 200,000 streams on Spotify as you said was because you were streaming the original mixtape, not Trilogy, If you look at the Trilogy streaming numbers for EoS, every song is over 30 million, with D.D. almost at 100 million
Dawn FM is one of my favorite albums ever and I’ve been a weeknd fan since 2018
Obviously
Dawn FM really hit home for me too…. Very reflective and interesting concept🔥
I love how deep you guys get into the conversations and how you describe not only how you like the songs but how they make you feel and what they mean on a deeper level. Also Abel’s goated ❤
For me it’s too hard to rank them without doing tiers. Some of them are so close together imo.
S: HOB, EOS, Kissland, After hours
A: Thursday, BBTM, MDM
B: Starboy, Dawn Fm
ALL OF THESE ALBUMS ARE AMAZING. B TIER IS STILL REALLY GOOD FOR ME. I don’t want people thinking I dislike any of these.
my exact list except Starboy and BBTM are swapped
@@YoMomsGynecologist I'd swap them but then put both of them a tier lower
this is genius idk why i didn’t think of this sooner💀 imma jus do tier lists instead of number ranking from now on
The Weeknd is one of those artists where he switches up his sound every album and never seems to miss. I haven't listened to every project in his discography but I've listened to all of his studio albums and they all hit
My ranking
1. After Hours
2. Beauty behind the madness
3. House of Balloons
4. My dear melancholy
5. Starboy
6. Dawn FM
7. Kissland
8. Echoes of silence
9. Thursday
BBTM is weeknds most underrated project and he wouldn’t have the star power he has today without it. Some of his most iconic hits ever & blended perfectly between his old & new style
I ain't tryna be that guy, like what you like
But this list is absolutely disgraceful
@@sleep6837 🤷🏾♂️
I agree wit you on BBTM being the album that made him blow up the way he did but I just think as far meaning, storytelling and the sound its not his best but I still Iove the album nonetheless
Absolutely. BBTM is one of his most cohesive and not forced works
What’s up Nigel! Cool to see why you like BBTM so much🤝
Bro I clicked sooo fast for this video , I've been wanting for yall to rank his legendary discography for months . My favorite is house of balloons 🎈
Hope you enjoyed the ranking Tashin🙏
My favorite from The Weeknd is actually My Dear Melancholy. I adore all of his projects. But when I listened to My Dear Melancholy in 2018, it made me into a super fan of The Weeknd. It’s his most cohesive album as there’s 7 songs and you get to know everything about The Weeknd sonically and lyrically. Plus, back in 2018, I got cheated on by my ex-girlfriend and this album helped me deal with the heartbreak as I relate to how he was feeling about his heartbreak. This album has his best songs like Try Me, Call Out My Name, Hurt You, I Was Never There, and Privilege. I still replay every song on this album. It’s my personal favorite from The Weeknd and it’s iconic in my heart.
1.Kissland
2.House of Balons
3.After Hours
4.Thursday
5.MDM
6.Dawn FM
7.BBTM
8.Starboy
9.Echoes of silence
1. House of Ballons
2. Dawn FM
3. After Hours
4. Thursday
5. Echos of silence
6. Starboy
7. Beauty behind the madness
8. My dear melononlchy
9. Kiss land
His foresight at 21 is insane. When the trilogy mixtapes were fresh i didn't grasp the concepts right away but when I did it made the music 20x better. A true artist
For someone not too much into that sexual or playboy music.. My list
1 : Dawn FM ( Fav: Less Than Zero )
2 : Starboy ( Fav: Die for You )
3 : Mdm ( Fav: Call out my name )
4 : After Hours ( Fav: In Your Eyes )
5 : BBTM ( Fav: Earned it )
6 : Kissland ( Fav: Tears in the Rain )
7 : Trilogy ( Fav: House of balloons/GTG )
Seeing trilogy and Kissland at the bottom hurts
1. House of Balloons
2. Dawn FM
3. After Hours
4. Thursday
5. Kiss Land
6. Beauty Behind the Madness
7. Echoes of Silence
8. My Dear Melancholy
9. Starboy
To me the percussion on wasted times is very similar to too late off after hours I’ve always really liked that
Best song on star boy is die for u fs
Great song how do you feel about the album overrall?
Can't forget the Trilogy bonus tracks, Twenty Eight is a masterpiece 🖤
1. After Hours (Most well rounded Weeknd project by far)
2. House of Balloons (Best production out of all 3 mixtapes)
3. Echoes of Silence (Best singing out of all 3 mixtapes)
4. Beauty Behind the Madness (Best hits and a great era in music)
5. Kissland (Amazing production, some tracks are too stretched out imo)
6. My Dear Melancholy (Too short but some of his best singing no doubt)
7. Dawn FM (Not his best but amazing track list, feels like an AFTER HOURS B-Sides)
8. Thursday ( Having it this low doesn't feel right, I might be sleeping on it)
9. Starboy (Too much filler, Reminder go hard tho)
Dawn FM is kinda overrated imo, but still a really good album
Reminder indeed goes hard🔥
I understand why people don't like starboy as much but it has some of his biggest and best hits to date with reminder, secrets, I feel it coming, starboy, party monster (super underrated), and die for you, cmon it was good to great album
Thursday being that low should be criminal
Oh buddy you’re sleeping in Thursday
I was waiting for new discography ranking and you treated me with The Weeknd now 🔥🔥
I was listening to Starboy and Kiss Land today 😁
Happy to deliver🔥 favorite Weeknd album?
@@NFRPodcast House Of Balloons for sure 🔥 (one of my fav projects oat) - After Hours and BBTM in my top3
My ranking, with my favourite two songs from each project...
1. After Hours (After Hours, In Your Eyes)
2. Kiss Land (Kiss Land, The Town)
3. House of Balloons (HoB/GTG, Wicked Games)
4. Dawn FM (Out of Time, Less Than Zero)
5. Thursday (The Zone, Rolling Stone)
6. Echoes of Silence (Initiation, D.D)
7. My Dear Melancholy (Wasted Times, Hurt You)
8. Starboy (Starboy, Sidewalks)
9. Beauty Behind The Madness (The Hills, Prisoner)
Wicked Games aint on MDM
BBTM at last? damnnnn what i have it top three. Respect it.
@@Millerofmac-rip Doesn't mean I dislike it. Still plenty of songs I play regularly from that album, classics. I love The Weeknd, it's just tough competition against his other albums which are all so good
@@TheDodawacFilmy Yeah my bad I meant Wasted Times!
I respect your opinion bro but Echoes is better than Thursday
Really appreciated hearing y’all reflections. The Weeknd is my favorite artist, I’ve been a fan since tracks from HoB in 2010/2011 were dropping without his face on it. Its been so special watching him grow and the story he tells in his music continue. I feel like he has one of the most cohesive discrographys. As someone who struggles with addiction and ptsd, a lot of things he tells in the story have always resonated with me. Like feeling stuck in the depression and needing drugs and other means to drown it out. Now that I’ve been in recovery for almost 3 years, songs like “until I bleed it out” and “gasoline” really resonate. Trying to transition into someone different, but feeling held back by my destructive past self still. I def feel such a connection to his discography because I’ve felt like I’ve grown along side of it on so many levels. It’s a bonus that the sound is insane 😍
Aww man Until I Bleed Out is so underrated but touchy. Whenever it comes into my playlist I have to skip it because it's a song that puts me to cry really easily
Listened to his music for the first time and bbtm is my favorite album of the weeknd it has everything that i love from the weeknd from the dark sound to singing to the production a 10/10 album and house of balloons as the seco
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Tbh I’ve never been the biggest Weeknd fan but I stumbled upon House of Balloons one night and it just hit so hard. I tend to put that album on before I go to sleep most nights. It just puts me at peace. From there though I’ve gave his other two mixtapes a listen and dove into his albums. Nothing really hit the same for me except Beauty Behind The Madness which I love too. I have that and House Of Balloons on vinyl and after watching you guys give your takes on his discography I’m motivated to dive into his discography again, and with a new perspective and understanding of his concepts.
My three favourites gotta be Kiss Land, Star Boy, and Dawn FM is up there too. I definitely disagree with Starboy having too much filler, from top to bottom that album was incredible and it's one that I still go back to a lot.
I’ve tried so hard to like kiss land but the tracks are just too long and boring for me. What makes it so beloved for you?
@@jankyboi5484 the concept is the reason why I fell in love with the album. What’s ur ranking?
@@devanshpuri5269 I don’t have a full ranking decided yet but my top 3 is Dawn FM, Beauty Behind the Madness, and After Hours
@@jankyboi5484 That's a strong top 3
It has some of the most filler tracks on any Weeknd album but they are all still enjoyable though
I would argue to place beauty behind the madness above my dear melancholy. Overall good video.
My ranking:
10. Starboy
9. Echoes of Silence
8. My Dear Melancholy
7. The Noise EP (Unreleased)
6. Beauty behind the Madness
5. Thursday
4. After hours
3. Kiss Land
2. Dawn FM
1. House of balloons
My Ranking:
1. House of Ballons
2. Kissland
3. Beauty Behind the Madness
4. Echoes of Silence
5. Thursday
6. My Dear Melancholy
7. After Hours
8. Starboy
9. Dawn FM
After Hours number 7’s pretty controversial. Are you not a big fan of poppy Weeknd?
@@poison1356 It definitely is controversial but its cause i'm not as big of some of the more poppy songs on there. I love songs like alone again, too late, escape from la, save your tears, repeat after me, after hours, and until i bleed, but I don't really like snowchild, heartless and blinding lights. Overall I love after hours and ranking it 7 doesn't really give justice to how great it is but I just prefer the darker sound from his previous albums
My favourite album is after hours trilogy is a masterpiece too
Yes those are some of his best projects! Favorite song on After Hours?🤔
@@NFRPodcast got to be after hours
@@NFRPodcast snowchild
In the birds PT. 2, she shoots herself, and it portrays the Weeknd as a bird, as a crow, which are prophecised to wait for their prey and hunt them until they're Gone, which is the next track on the album 19:59
My Dear Melancholy one of my most underrated albums recently released. So Good.
That’s facts Nate! Not a mid/weak song on there🙏
Personally My Dear Melancholy hands down my favorite project.
I love to see it! Definitely one of his most focused tracklists🔥
You guys are the best music channel on this platform. Period
House of Balloons, Kiss Land and Echoes of Silence are my top 3. After Hours and Dawn FM are fantastic though and probably right on the cusp of being top 3 for me.
Yalll underrated tf out of BBTM. Amazing video! Love the content!
I'm a basic Weeknd fan so don't make fun of me. My favorite albums are After Hours (mainly because of Save Your Tears and Blinding Lights) and Kiss Land. Kiss Land just slaps.
Edit: I also like BBTM and Starboy
1. DawnFM
2. After Hours
3. Kiss Land
4. House of Balloons
5. Thursday
6. Echoes of Silence
7. Starboy
8. My Dear Melancholy
9. Beauty behind the madness
My rating (not like anyone cares worst to best in my opinion) Dawn FM, Echoes Of Silence, Thursday, House Of Balloons, Trilogy (I know it’s the past 3 with extra that is why I put it here), Starboy, My Dear Melancholy, After Hours, and finally my favorite Beauty Behind The Madness
For my top Weekend songs, here they are at the moment:
1. The Party and After Party
2. Tears in the Rain
3. The Knowing
4. Adaptation/Love in the Sky
5. After Hours
6. How do I Make You Love Me
7. False Alarm
8. Kissland
9. Gasoline
10. Faith
i hate this list so much
@@Seyit-Mehmet that's okay 😭
this is hella late: but as a HUGE fan of the weeknd, this ENTIRE list was a W. good work as usual Lu and Ant!!
His music and story is so fucking cool I can’t wait till his new album comes out
9. Kiss land
8. Beauty behind the madness
7. My dear melancholy
6. Starboy
5. Dawn FM
4. Thursday
3. After hours
2. Echoes of silence
1. House of balloons
1. After Hours (from beginning to end, it’s a nonstop blockbuster. Excellent transitions and great subject matter. Inspired me as a musician)
2. House of Balloons (dark and edgy. The raw sound with the instrumentals and vocals adds to it rather than devalue it)
3. My Dear Melancholy (perfect flow and feel. Doesn’t overstay it’s welcome and is easy to play through without any skips)
4. Kiss Land (best album in terms of story telling and transitions. Epic narrative and underlying tones)
5. Dawn FM (diverse and narratively great. Beautiful sequel to AH)
6. Thursday (beautiful vocals with cool theme behind the narrative)
7. Starboy (great pop songs and R&B tracks. A great album that could do without a few tracks)
8. Echoes of Silence (best vocals of the entire Trilogy)
9. Beauty Behind The Madness (mainstream heavy but equally solid)
he said that with starboy that's exactly what he was going for, a bunch of sonically similar songs with a certain concept. not like his other bodies of work. he just wanted to have fun with it which is why I still respect it. but all in all I think that dawn fm is his best album. i can say that with confidence after a year
As a mood listener, the albums fluctuate for me so i dont have a precise exact favourite but MDM is his most none skipped tracklist listen for me.
1.Echoes of Silonence
2. House of ballons
3. After Hours
4. Beauty behind the madness
5.Thrusday
6. Dawn Fm
7. StarBoy
8. Kiss land
9. My Dear Melonchly
I know a lot of people call starboy his most safe album. But it has always been my favorite from him without a doubt. And I love every one of his albums. It’s what really got me into him and I like every song on the album.
Yeah man maybe you got your favorite album Backwards If you would have said after hours I can understand but that's actually criminal what you said you need to look deep into trilogy or kiss land!
After Hours and Dawn fm are easily in top 3 of his best records.
1. HOB
2. After Hours
3. Dawn FM
4. My Dear Melancholy
5. Thursday
6. Starboy
7. Kids land
8. EOS
9. BBTM
Favorite song on HOB?
@@NFRPodcast The Knowing!!!
My ranking
1. After hours
2. Kiss land
3. House of balloons
4. My dear melancholy
5. Echoes of silence
6. Thursday
7. Beauty behind the madness
8. Dawn FM
9. Starboy
Me: Delves into the video excited
Them: "at number 9 is Starboy"
Me: * pauses video and moves on with life *
my list:
1. After Hours (all time fav album)
2. HOB
3. EOS
4. Kiss Land
5. Dawn fm
6. Thursday
7. MDM
8. BBTM
9. Starboy
Super hard to rank the top 5 and it’s very close between Dawn fm and Thursday but all in all I love his whole discography. i don’t think that there is such a consistent discography as abel’s but that’s just pure bias since his my all time fav artist
1) HOB
2) EOS
3) AH
4) DFM
5) Thursday
6) BBTM
7) Kiss Land
8) Starboy
[9) MDM]
My top 5 (because I can't settle for a top 3)
1. BBTM (how I discovered him)
2. Kiss Land (I just love the aesthetic it's so pretty and cool)
3. After Hours (I really loved this era)
4. My Dear Melancholy (This one has an eeeeeeerie vibe to it I can't explain it but I listen to it when I wanna feel angsty)
5. Dawn FM (just the whole radio station vibes and how the first half of the album is like a concert-like shit that I'm excited to see live!!)
Special mentions:
House of Balloons
Starboy (not all the songs, maybe only Sidewalks, Starboy, Die for You and Reminder)
1. Echoes of silence
2. House of balloons
3. Dawn FM
4. After hours
5. The beauty behind the madness
6. Starboy
7. Thursday
8. Kiss land
First I just wanna say that every weeknd album is a minimum A- but here’s my ranking:
1) AH
2) BBTM
3) HOB
4) Starboy
5) Dawn FM
6) MDMM
7) Thursday
8) EOS
9) Kiss Land
Best album ever at 9 😟
@@curledseeker6139 They are all his best albums imo
@@devanshpuri5269 valid
Guys the reason why echoes of silence doesn’t have a lot of streams is because it just got on Spotify
That makes sense thanks for clearing that up!
great video I loved how in-depth you go into your opinions on each project. could you guys add timestamp chapters on the video for each album? I just wanna be able to go back and easily find the commentary for each one to revisit
my list:
1. HOB
2. Thursday
3. After Hours
4. Dawn FM
5. EOS
6. BBTM
7. my dear melancholy
8. Kissland
9. Starboy
When I was first introduced to the Weeknd, it was the Trilogy. A great body of work and something I could vibe with
Then when BBTM and Starboy, that idea I had of him went away.
Yes he tried to evolve his scope and whatnot, but the pop side of the Weeknd I'm not a big fan of.
So when After Hours/Dawn FM dropped, I was so happy to get that side of the Weeknd again. There is some narrative being written/sung
The first half of his career started off promising, he had some bumps in the middle, but now he's back to his roots!
What do u think of KissLand?
After Hours
House of balloons
Dawn FM
Thursday
BBTM
Star boy
MDM
Echoes Of Silence
Kissland
Love this podcast! I see NFR post, I click on the video.
Thanks Josh we appreciate you tuning in🔥
What does Lu mean when he said that none of the songs from echoes of silence have over 200 K plays. Atleast on my spotify all of the songs are atleast close to 30 million plays.
Yes Please Do A Top 10 Songs List From Abel’s Discography
That would be dope Paul🙏 favorite Weeknd song?
@@NFRPodcast that’s so tough idk man, I do have a top 10 songs list I’ll put that instead 😭 This is before hearing Dawn FM btw 👏🏼❤️🔥
After Hours
HOB/GTG
Escape From LA
Faith
Professional
The Town
StarGirl Interlude
Privilege
The Knowing
The Hills
You guys are great . You may be the one who gets the weeknd like we xo get .
My List
1. My Dear Melancholy
2. House of Balloons
3. After Hours
4. Kissland
5. Beauty Behind The Madness
6. Dawn FM
7. Echoes Of Silence
8. Starboy
9. Thursday
Very difficult ranking, Thursday is such an amazing record and I don't see any of them as being any less than amazing. If the only music he had out was thursday he would still be my favorite artist. Also my rankings change weekly but My Dear Melancholy will always be the most perfect project of all time for me
Kissland is my favorite. His most conceptual álbum ( sound and substance)
finally someone knows
That why I love the weekend's discography.
I think you should be going to jail for putting B.B.T.M at place 8. But everyone ranks the projects way different
Starboy was my first album listening to the weeknd.
Been waiting on this for weeks now
Starboy is criminally underrated, no misses at all i love it
Small nitpick: The songs on Echoes of Silence on Spotify all have 20mil+ plays as part of the "Trilogy" album which contains the first three mixtapes.
I was waiting so long for this video as a long time fan of The Weeknd’s music. I’ve got my opinions and disagreements for everything 6 and up. Kiss Land, I think, is easily his most misunderstood project and I’m not sure why. God, what I would do to discuss those top 6 projects. There’s a lot in the understanding of his projects that gets missed or extremely overlooked
then start a podcast or a youtube channel?